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March 2024

Several area communities have benefited in recent years from the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation's Paint the Town grant program. We visit four of them.

Root River Current’s first year of publishing—on behalf of its board of directors, co-publishers John Torgrimson and John Gaddo look back at what it took to get here and plans for the future of this

Essayist Ken Lubinski reminds us we’re not the only ones awaiting spring.

The third in a series of articles on libraries in the Root River valley. Steve Harris reports on SELCO—Southeastern Libraries Cooperating.

The Mississippi River's locks and dams have changed the river's natural flow. Madeline Heim explores their history and purpose.

Prairie strip vegetation in the middle of corn fields operated by Mower County farmer Wayne DeWall south of Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (Photo by Mower County SWCD)

Ann Wessel visits a sheep farm north of Rushford where rotational grazing improved productivity.